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~ es ne ------'--_"----"--'W"/"-"-----" : AH'\\ B _ w * payer for the construction of adr TIM ER I.IM'TS f plant. 'They have been made clt'l{en; f f a&s a measure of social betterment. It is doubtful if as much as half of the § existing mileags, now almost 10,000 miles in extent, of rural distribution systems wou'ld have been constructed without these grants in aid. _ The :g:o"t'.":' so :xpt;ndod up to the pres-' gusmmenmmeemsess * V Lme _ totals $9,489,670, | . --The grants have carried with them Hepburn Would Free ¥ general public apporo & * > § continuance 'will eable 166 Connuise Timber Empire From | sion to construct i ho r £. itionnl rural lines. in the furure/add!-- Hands of Few "The revenue of the Commission at mmmmnommmas | m:fi:i{i vlr-:"r':t m;m:::' do:-he c(':?nlcipal Legislature Tories fought Hon. Pejer | tracts, from customers in rural pOO:,-,;;, Heenan's '"reallocation of timber lim-- gfit}:ict-fh and from other customers its" bill to a division '1 the House 'nlcipal';ti:s;n:g--l?: C!())ohallrss iof the mu-- last night. The proposed measurs , clal contracts, all "?;'Lrl?i to'? has sP®-- . which would give the Government f Georgian Ba_\: .Easternnomzr'iqc:ag:;ad' P rioecern ie PP ie NOADBTN EDT lghl(;nder Bay Systems, Manitoulin Is-- :2:&%"'0;? :' 3354 ll);"'é':: ough :secons | lan and Nipissing rural power dis-- 8 a 34-- -- tricts aggregates $29,085,571.37. 'The The Premier said that proper ex-- ' revenue of the Commission from cus-- _ PMO'etion of natural resources was the [fomers served by the Northern on.| Oh¢ mtans of geifing out of the de-- | tario properties, which are held and preesion. His Government believed :"l)eex;iste;;li;aa trust for thio Prlovincc. is | lg%i:g R't?'g :fir&'e;'fglfi r:;":t was + y n 6 makin & ta % £ 783,.882.50. ¢ of $90, 1 While Wilfrid Hceighington, Toronio Quebec Contracts. | _ _ Tory, led a Conservative attack on the + The Hydro Commissioner devoted n}"t;::ii asn;y?#ylng ";hemsmcfkl;ng pome Hime in his report to the Quebec!~ Qusire®" the Minister of Lands and contracts which the Hepburn Govern-- ;ust.n;. dies nister of Lands and ment cancelled. HMe noted again that tolnes mg ended his bill as one gare- the contracts were causing a serics of ully and soundly designed to advance deficits in the earnings of the Com-- the interests of the North and its mission, which made it necessary for residents. io h y > withdrawais from the contingencies The object of the bill is "to restore reserve of the Niagara System. to the Crown a measure of control "At no time since the contracts of! Over the areas, and the timber on 1929--30 woere mado has there been such areas, which have been alienated need to call for more power from the by the Crown to various concession-- Quebec contractors than could have naires, and to more readily control the g.:n supp!:c; by t:)h:' Gatincau Power su;l;ply c:lf pulpwooqnto be used in the mpany. For this unused and un-- pulp and paper mills.'"" usable power, the Commission has Bitterly opposing what he regarded been paying an annual power bill as the '"inroads of Governmeontal which for the year 1929 totalied $1.-- control over private industry," Mr. 628,516, and which had increased, as | Heighington declared the House was at Oct. 31, 1935, to $8,232,968. Had being asked "to place authority and trrxc-_ con::'ac;s' remained in force, the dictatorship in the hands, not of the | payrtent to the four Quebec contrac-- people, nor even of this House, but tors in the year beginning Nov. 1, in the hands of the Cabinet m a's-- 1936, would have totalled $10.965,000 Ler. In other words." he said, "we j ® on a tendercd cgntract supply of 731,-- are asked to place control ox'e'r the 600 horsepower," Mr. Lyon said. lives and livelinood of the people of the North in the hands of one man--who may not always be the prosent genial occupant of the offic» of Minister of Lands and Forests." A trenchant defense of his bill was offered by Mr. Heenan, who deciared that it had been carefully considered from all aspects by the Government and that it promised to put to use vast timber areas now disused, thus stimu-- lating employment and hastening full recovery in the North. "It is the purpose of this act," he said. "to reallocate timber areas and _ see that not only establishned industry in the North is taken care of, but also to make provision for the fostering of other newer industriee than thee concerned with newsprint." Forecasts Confusion. It had been bad enougn, Mr. Heigh-- f a ington said, when the House was asked to approve the cancellation of the power contracts with the Quebec com-- panics, "Now," he said, "you're going further in this cancellation and rc-- } pudiation business. You're asking this House to approve a measure which, in substance, declares that no contract * involving private property transfers in the lumber areas of the North is worth a scrap of paper. Such a policy can only lead to confusion and further difficulty." a The bill aim»d, he said, not merely f at giving a Minister administrative y powers over his own department, but created him an absolute dictator, with powers exceeding that of many an absolute monarch,. and complete con-- trol over an industry that was the life-- * blood of the North. 'Thus, he said, did the Government seek to shackle in-- dustry and put fetters on trade. "Not content," he said. "with deal-- . 1 ing such a severe blow to the credit : 4 and good name of this Province as ; ' l was done by the 1935 legislation on ; the Hydro contracts, the Government ; proceeds to make another major con-- ? tribution. not only to its own destruc-- : tion, but to the further destruction . of the good standing and integrity of ; > # 'the Province."